BracenBuild

Construction intelligence

Know what's built. Back what's billed.

BracenBuild turns site walks into measurable progress — observed in the field, weighted across the project, and used to substantiate every progress claim.

Live in production · Running on a large occupied multifamily renovation in Los Angeles · Los Angeles, California

The problem

Progress is reported, not observed.

On a large multifamily renovation, percent-complete arrives as an opinion from the field, days or weeks after the work. Owners, lenders and contractors then argue over a number nobody actually measured.

Every party on the job is paying for the same walk to happen three times, and still no one trusts the result.

What BracenBuild does

Turns the walk into arithmetic.

Reads the units off the drawings

The unit list comes straight from the architectural PDF. There is no spreadsheet to build and none to maintain.

Weights that are stated, not judged

Scope items carry whole-number weights per project, overridable per building, so percent-complete is arithmetic rather than opinion.

An observed status for every unit

On every walk: not started, in progress, complete, blocked, or not visible. A unit nobody looked at is not a unit at zero.

Runs beside your system of record

In parallel with the incumbent, rather than demanding replacement on day one. Nothing has to be switched off to start.

Built for robots from the first commit

Capture and assessment are separated by a strict interface.

The assessment engine does not know what carried the camera down the corridor. A handheld 360 rig today; a quadruped or a humanoid tomorrow. Same interface, no rewrite — the robot becomes a capture device the platform already knows how to consume.

Straight about the gap: automated observation from footage is the next build. Today a walk is assessed by a person against the capture. The architecture to receive an autonomous walk is already in place; the vision pipeline is not.

Building a humanoid or quadruped? An active site is approved for robot testing. Ask for the pilot site offer.

The BracenBuild dashboard: project picker and tools down the left, percent-complete and the registers to the right.
The dashboard on a live project. One line is blanked out: it named the incumbent system the job runs on, which belongs to the customer and is not ours to publish.

What is live today

Running in production, on a real job.

Not a roadmap. Every line below is deployed and in use on a large occupied multifamily renovation in Los Angeles.

Where this is going

The full product strategy — intelligence loop, accountability engine, financial and schedule layers. Roadmap, not a feature list.

Nearest of those: attaching that evidence to a pay-application line, so a percentage on a draw traces back to the walk it came from. The join and the endpoint exist; the screen for it does not yet.

BracenBuild White Paper v1.0 — Vision & Product Strategy (PDF)

The ask

A pilot on one active jobsite.

One building, one scope. You supply the site and the drawings; I supply the unit map, the scope weights and the assessment platform.

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